> Particularly in DevOps, my specialism. There is no test for debugging SSL certificate chains in production at 3am.
> We can’t replicate having no answers as to why production is down at 6pm on Christmas Eve or how we will stay at our desk until it’s fixed.
So, I’m getting the sense that this person enjoys devops. I wonder if they are trapped between engineering and ops - good at both, but not great at either.
if this person wants to work at a larger tech company, maybe this person should apply to be an SRE?
They have very valuable skills and the pay for SRE often exceeds the pay for engineers. I’d not expect an SRE interview to be as focused on whiteboarding, but have a much deeper understanding of a systems toolchain, eg how to use Linux tools to diagnose a network issue.